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Hibernated Russian vice-admiral — youngest of the candidates considered to inherit Luo Ji's Swordholder seat at the end of the Deterrence transition.
Antonov is the candidate who looks the part. He has the resume — vice-admiral by thirty, deputy commander of the Baltic Fleet — and a hibernation case file that reads like a martyr's. In conversation he is direct, dryly funny, and uninterested in posturing about deterrence theory. He is one of the few candidates who would actually pull the trigger, and the post-Crisis civilian electorate finds him slightly terrifying.
A heavyset Russian man in his early forties, blond hair going thin, the broad shoulders of a Baltic Fleet line officer. Wears a refurbished Russian Navy dress jacket above modern future-issue trousers — neither garment quite matches the era.
Also known as: 伊万·安东诺夫